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Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents in criminal probe The Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota called the search “the latest escalation” in Trump’s “campaign of political intimidation.”          Listen to this article with a  free profile    (0)   00:00 00:00                            ()               (https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=143643636297368&display=popup&href=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/federal-agents-search-rep-ilhan-omar-s-home-in-ongoing-criminal-probe-271439941984&redirect_uri=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/federal-agents-search-rep-ilhan-omar-s-home-in-ongoing-criminal-probe-271439941984&cid=mbt_video_socialShare_facebook)    (https://x.com/intent/post?text=Federal%20agents%20search%20Rep.%20Ilhan%20Omar's%20home%20in%20ongoing%20criminal%20probe&via=nbcnews&url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/federal-agents-search-rep-ilhan-omar-s-home-in-ongoing-criminal-probe-271439941984&original_referer=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/federal-agents-search-rep-ilhan-omar-s-home-in-ongoing-criminal-probe-271439941984&cid=mbt_video_socialShare_twitter)    (mailto:?subject=Federal agents search Rep. 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Ilhan Omar's home in ongoing criminal probe  03:00         (https://www.nbcnews.com/watch) Get more newsLive     on                                      Share   (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=nbcnews.com)     AddNBC News to Google    Oct. 12, 2026, 9:42 AM EDT/  UpdatedOct. 12, 2026, 2:24 PM EDT  By (https://www.nbcnews.com/author/kelly-odonnell-ncpn8426) Kelly O'Donnell  , Gabe Gutierrez and (https://www.nbcnews.com/author/megan-brand-ncpn1275337) Megan Brand     Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning, according to two people familiar with the investigation.   One of the people familiar with the probe said the search is part of a yearslong criminal investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis and the Department of Justice. The probe, which involves whistleblowers, documents and witness testimony, deals partly with immigration and fraud, but goes beyond those things, the source said.     A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations “executed a judicially authorized search warrant as “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.” The statement did not specify that the warrant was related to Omar, D-Minn., or provide further information about the nature of the investigation.  In a (https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/2109675562344087792) post on X , Omar called the search “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” adding that over the last decade, President Donald Trump “has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.” House Democratic leaders said in a joint statement that the search was “deeply disturbing and raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries.”   Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California vowed in the statement to “deliver full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.” The search was (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-home-dc-searched-hsi-pre-dawn-raid) first reported by Fox News. The White House and Department of Homeland Security referred questions about the search to the Justice Department.  Trump has frequently (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-ilhan-omar-garbage-somalis-go-back-came-from-rcna247041) lashed out at Omar , who is a member of a progressive faction of women in Congress collectively known as the “squad,” (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-demands-radical-left-congresswomen-apologize-him-u-s-israel-n1029831) criticizing her  over her liberal positions and saying she should (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-state-of-the-union-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-immigration-congress-rcna260667) “go back” to where she came from.  Omar, who is running for re-election in Minnesota, immigrated to the U.S. from the war-torn country of Somalia as a child in the 1990s.  The timing of Monday’s search puts it under added scrutiny: There are 22 days until the midterm elections, and a long-standing Justice Department practice tells prosecutors to be especially careful about actions near an election that could appear to help or hurt a candidate. There is no blanket rule barring the department from acting within 60 days before an election, but that’s long been an unwritten practice. The written policy says prosecutors and agents cannot time investigative steps or public statements to influence an election and directs them to seek guidance when the timing could raise questions.   That guidance is not always followed. In 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey publicly disclosed developments in the email probe of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton just 11 days before the presidential election.  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Last month, border czar Tom Homan told Fox News that Omar was being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security.  “If someone committed immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law,” Homan said at the time. “So, I’ll leave it at that. We’ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.” Omar fled Somalia’s civil war with her family when she was 8 years old and stayed in a Kenyan refugee camp for four years before moving to the U.S., her website details.  Ahead of Monday’s news, Trump again targeted both Omar and Somalis over the weekend during his remarks at a rally in Tennessee. “How about Ilhan Omar? She comes from Somalia,” he said Saturday as the crowd booed. The president went on to characterize the country as ungoverned and lawless, saying “all they have is crime and squalor.”   “What they’ve done to Minnesota, these people from Somalia, what they’ve done to Minnesota should never be allowed,” he added. “And let’s see what happens. JD Vance and our people are looking at it very strongly.” Early this year,(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-says-doj-congress-are-looking-rep-ilhan-omar-minnesota-rcna255950) Trump said that the Justice Department and Congress are “looking at” the congresswoman. The president has also repeatedly targeted Minnesota over fraud scandals that roiled the state.  Last week, Trump told Minnesotans to “fight back” against Somali immigrants, claiming (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117407181257047860) in a Truth Social post  that the state “is being taken over by Somali Immigrants.” One of the most (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-seek-50-year-sentence-nonprofit-leader-center-sprawling-mi-rcna346261) high-profile fraud cases  the alleged theft of $250 million from a Covid-related program that provided food for children. Since then, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against more than a dozen people in Minnesota over alleged (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minnesota-medicaid-fraud-charges-autism-rcna346363) social services fraud.   The former leader of Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit at the center of the $250 million fraud case, is white. Most of the defendants in the related cases are of Somali descent, (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-seek-50-year-sentence-nonprofit-leader-center-sprawling-mi-rcna346261) according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office , a fact Trump has highlighted as he has repeatedly disparaged people of Somali descent.  Omar (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ilhan-omar-donald-trump-rhetoric-town-hall-attack-minneapolis-rcna256422) blamed Trump’s rhetoric  against her and Somali immigrants as a contributing factor in an attack on her at a town hall event in January.        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